Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58A+
N281SP is a Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58A+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Coastal Air Service INC, a corporation in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; patrolling; other; aerial surveying, dated February 11, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Garlick Helicopters Inc
- Model
- OH-58A+ · all OH-58A+s and related versions
- Serial number
- 73-21912
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc T63-A-720 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1973
- Transponder code
- A2D350 (octal 50551520)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Patrolling; Other; Aerial surveying · February 11, 2014
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00516071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coastal Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7424 Coastal Dr
Panama City, FL 32404-4015
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N281SP, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Coastal Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 23, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 2014, 41 years after the 1973 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73-21912 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281SP according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N281SP: Accident on April 26, 2022 at Oakland, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Garlick Helicopters INC OH-58A+ · operated under 137
The pilot’s decision to continue the low-altitude aerial application flight over water conditions that degraded his depth perception, which resulted in an inadvertent collision with the water.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA209 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data